hunter
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After learning a little about FreeBSD from this project and hearing so many good reports about the OS, I am in the process of configuring a freeBSD workstation to try to use as my daily driver. I normally boot Clonezilla off a CD to back up this type of work to TrueNAS over the network (using NFSv4) in case I were to do something wrong and bork the OS I am working on. That won't work this time because clonezilla doesn't know how to read the ZFS my distro wanted for the boot drive.
I know the FreeBSD manuals are good and it suggested the functions dump and restore. I'm none too sure the live installation disk will have those functions and I don't have another spare drive to add to the workstation to format into ZFS and send snapshots.
Does anyone happen to know a quick and dirty way I might be able to backup my FreeBSD workstation while I'm working on configuring it?
I know the FreeBSD manuals are good and it suggested the functions dump and restore. I'm none too sure the live installation disk will have those functions and I don't have another spare drive to add to the workstation to format into ZFS and send snapshots.
Does anyone happen to know a quick and dirty way I might be able to backup my FreeBSD workstation while I'm working on configuring it?